Ahmedabad, Apr 15: Zakia Jafri, the widow of slain former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, today demanded filing of chargesheet against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 58 others for their complicity in 2002 riots and sought rejection of the Special Investigation Team report, saying the SIT "covered up the crimes and misled the court" by giving clean chit to them rpt them.
Zakia, wife of post-Godhra riots victim and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed by a mob in the Gulburg Society violence in 2002, today filed a protest petition in a local court against the SIT closure report of 2012 that let Modi and others rpt others off the hook.
Zakia also sought further investigations into her complaint filed in 2006, by an independent agency other than the Supreme Court-appointed SIT.
In her complaint, Zakia had sought prosecution of Modi, along with 58 others, for aiding and abetting 2002 post-Godhra communal riots in which more then 1,200 people lost their lives, following which the apex court set up SIT.
The court of Metropolitan Magistrate B J Ganatra will hear Zakia's petition on daily basis from April 24.
"We have strongly argued that the SIT had adequate documents and statements to come to a conclusion against all the accused, however, it decided to cover up the crimes and misled the court by giving clean chit to them (Modi and others)," said advocate S M Vora who is representing Zakia in this case.
He said the petition mainly highlighted, apart from scores of other evidences, the phone call details, various reports from State Intelligence Bureau and records of Police Control Room (PCR) in Ahmedabad and other cities, which he claimed that "SIT did not probe at all before coming to the conclusion (of giving clean chit)".
Zakia's petition has brought the focus back on the purported meeting held at the residence of Modi on February 27, 2002, a day before the Gulberg Society violence, where he allegedly asked police to let "Hindus vent their anger against Muslims".
